Chapter 1669
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The next day, the steam gaming online store opened for business. The first batch of products were all on sale. Many gamers logged onto the website out of curiosity to see what the website was like.
Then they couldn't help but cover their pockets. There were so many games on the website, including Daqian's Family Bucket and a lot of other games that were all 20% off. They couldn't help but want to buy them!
Of course, most of them had their eyes on Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, which was said to be made by Boss Jia. They wanted to see what Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos was like.
Apart from that, there were many staff members of the gaming company that entered the steam gaming online store. They wanted to see if the steam gaming online store could gain the approval of all gamers.
What's more, the website also showed the number of users who were online at all times. At about 8 AM in the morning, there were already more than 10,000 people online at the same time.
This number didn't seem like much, but it was quite a bit for a website that was only open for business.
At eight thirty in the morning, this number increased to thirty thousand users. At nine in the morning, there were fifty thousand users online.
"If the Daqian wasn't lying, then this number is really …" The chairman of EA mumbled as he stared at the website. He was very interested in this steam gaming online store.
It wasn't that he couldn't wait to sell his game on the store, but he had a more exciting idea.
This steam gaming online store was just a website. It wasn't hard for a huge company like EA to create a website like this.
If the Daqian could use a website to sell games, then why couldn't EA create a website of their own?
That way, they wouldn't have to give the Daqian 30% of the revenue. EA would be able to take all the revenue for themselves.
The chairman of EA became even more excited. However, he still had to confirm that selling standalone games on the internet was a good idea.
Just as the chairman was thinking about this, the phone on his desk rang. He naturally picked up the phone, and it was his secretary on the other end of the line.
The secretary quickly said a few words, and his face immediately showed a surprised expression. "What? We've already sold 10 copies of the game!"
In order to conduct experiments, Hawkins decided to test the game on the steam game store. However, in order not to affect the sales of the company's important games, Hawkins decided to put up a game called SimCity that hadn't been popular yet and had just been released recently.
The game was released for sale at 8 AM this morning. Unexpectedly, 100 copies had already been sold.
It didn't seem like a lot, but Hawkins had thought that he wouldn't be able to sell a single copy of the game.
"Chairman, the money has already been transferred to our company's website account. We can withdraw it at any time! The premise is that our bank supports us! " Although it would take 48 hours to withdraw cash these days, there was no doubt that the money could be transferred to his account at any time. This made Hawkins a little excited. The speed of the money being transferred to his account was much faster than before.
Of course, withdrawing cash these days was a very troublesome thing. You had to personally go to the bank to do the business. Therefore, all businesses only had one chance to withdraw cash a month. This was to avoid repeated withdrawals and waste manpower.
This was solved very well by Hua Xia. All banks completely implemented digital transfer processes. However, the United States didn't completely solve this problem.
The reason was very simple. This was because banks in the United States were basically private. If private individuals wanted to transfer money without barriers, it involved too many interests.
On the other hand, Hua Xia could make all the banks act at the same time with a single order. The banks cooperated seamlessly with each other.
This was also the reason why there was a large market for recharge cards in the United States and other western countries. It was because the various transactions were too complicated. Except for a few banks, people in the United States still couldn't casually transfer money through banks. Alipay and other things like that didn't exist.
"Looks like this steam gaming online store could really be done!" As Hawkins pondered, the website shook and a message appeared at the top of the page. "Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos Demo is now available for download. Click this link and you'll be able to download the demo and experience the charm of Warcraft 3!"
"They released the demo an hour early!" This shocked Hawkins. Releasing a demo like this would usually only be done at gaming conventions like E3. It was impossible to release a demo like this at any other time.
This was because there was no profit to be made if the demo was given to the players. It also required recording and discs. It wasn't a good deal, so no game company would release a demo like this.
But for a steam gaming online store, it was different. After all, a demo was just a package. There was no loss in trying it out.
"I'd like to see what this Warcraft 3 is all about!" As a loyal gamer, Hawkins was naturally curious about the legendary Warcraft 3.
When Hawkins entered the page, according to the data that kept refreshing on the page, there were already more than 20,000 players who had chosen to download the demo.
Since it was a demo, Hawkins didn't hesitate to download it. The demo wasn't big, only around fifty megabytes. Hawkins' internet was naturally the best in the company. It was the kind with a broadband connection. For Hawkins, fifty megabytes only took less than two minutes to install the demo on his computer.
"That's fast!" Hawkins couldn't help but exclaim when he saw the Warcraft 3 demo icon lying quietly on his desktop.
At this moment, he had already experienced the charm of online game sales. He didn't need to go out, walk, queue, or wait. In the time it took him to make a cup of coffee at home, the game that had just been released today had already been installed on his computer.
"Let's see what this Warcraft 3 is made of!" Hawkins entered the game.
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